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Court, Culture, and Concepts in the 14th century

Some medieval music while you browse:

Dr. Carsley's lecture on Chaucer's life and times

Trapezoid illustrating the Great Vowel Shift (GVS)
A very rich resource: The Luminarium online British anthology
Harvard's Chaucer site (a fantastic resource for your essay)
Film on the Black Death:
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An illustrated page from the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales (circa 1400):Ellesmere Manuscript_Chaucer_knight.jpg

(...let's see your Kindle do THAT!)
Pietr Bruegel's "The Triumph of Death", c. 1562:Bruegel_Triumph of Death.jpg

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